The weekend

Has come and gone. Today was the first day of March, I am hoping for a good month. It’s light out now till about 6:30 which is crazy. I woke up today at 9 and the sun was streaming into my room which was so amazing. Today was probably one of the best days of winter. In the morning I went to Kincaid to go skiing with the roomies and a visiting boyfriend. It was perfect weather, sunny and not too cold. We went for a couple hours but half way through it we realized that we were on the course that was being used for a skijor race. So every few minutes we would have skiers passing us being pulled by dogs. It was great though to see it and be right in the mix of it all. Plus there were some pretty big hills that we skied down and I didn’t fall once. I did though fall once but I was standing still looking at the dogs that were passing us by. So maybe I should be less afraid of the hills and more afraid of my two left feet. But it was a beautiful morning.

After skiing we went home and then left to attend a drum circle at a fair trade store that sits in the hippy plaza. The hippy plaza is a strip mall here in anchorage where yes you probably guessed it the hippies hang out. Anchorage is pretty conservative and laden with strip malls. I don’t know who designed this city but they were for sure in love with strip malls. But anyway the hippy plaza isn’t too far from our house and it contains an REI store, a coffee shop, the fair-trade store, and some other progressive type stores. So the fair trade store was having a drumming circle from 2-4 so we decided to go and it was great. The store let us use their drums that they are selling and it was a pretty good crowd. There was this guy Jesse who led it and he was amazing. He taught us some rhythms and we just jammed out for a few hours. Then after the drumming circle we crossed the street in order to attend a Yoga class which was our spirituality night for the week. A couple of the roomies clean the yoga studio in exchange for free passes so they worked it out that our whole community could come for the Sunday class. The class was definitely a good compliment to the drumming circle. So what else could I ask for on a Sunday afternoon? Skiing, drumming, and yoga. Well my roommate also made an amazing carrot stew in the crock pot and that mixed with wheat berries was very tasty. One of my roommates bought 60 pounds of wheat berries so if anyone ever feels like visiting me don’t worry about being hungry. So yes now it’s time to go to bed and begin the month of March.